Now that the Australian Government's plain tobacco packaging legislation has passed into law, the three tobacco transnationals which sell cigarettes in Australia are jostling to show who has the hairiest legal chest.

But Big Tobacco's deadly, addictive products are being treated as such, and the world is no longer their ashtray.

Professor Simon Chapman is a well known anti-smoking campaigner. So some will find his position on smoking bans unexpected. He argues that restrictions on the liberty of individuals to smoke can go too far.